Transportation

Through the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board at COG, area officials, planners, and engineers focus on significant challenges like roadway and transit congestion, efficient freight movement, and safety. Learn more about COG's transportation planning areas. Learn more about the TPB.

Community

Area officials and experts, including planning and housing directors and child welfare and health officials, work together with their counterparts at COG to help shape stronger communities throughout the region. Learn more.

Homeland Security & Public Safety

COG brings police chiefs, fire chiefs, emergency managers, and other leaders together as part of its work to strengthen regional public safety coordination, homeland security planning, and emergency communication. Learn more.

About Us

COG connects leaders across borders to help shape strong communities and a better region. Every month, more than a thousand officials and experts come to COG to make connections, share information, and develop solutions to the region’s major challenges. Learn more.

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The purchasing and human resources pages offer information on doing business with COG, cooperative purchasing, and job opportunities. In addition, the website features initiatives that tie subject areas together, such as infrastructure and economic competitiveness.

The Capital Area Foreclosure Network (CAFN) was formed as a partnership between the Council of Governments and the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington to combat the foreclosure crisis that resulted from the Great Recession. Joining Forces looks back at the effectiveness of the program to stymie the wave of foreclosures in the region through capacity building of housing counselors and programs.

Housing Security is a first-of-its-kind report examining affordable housing needs from homelessness to home ownership on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis. The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region commissioned the study with generous support from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. The study was researched and prepared by the Urban Institute and the Council of Governments.

For news coverage and a press release on Housing Security, click here.